Leaves of Absence
Penn State Intercom......January 18 , 2001

2001-2002

Leaves of absence are granted for purposes of intensive study or research that will increase the quality of the individual's future contribution to the University.

Penn State Abington

Ingeborg I.M. Schuster, professor of chemistry, to explore the synthesis, structure and reactivity of highly interconnected, cavity-containing hydrocarbon nanostructures containing the hexacaphenyl subunit and representing substructures of cubic graphite at Princeton University in New Jersey.

College of Agricultural Sciences

James G. Beierlein, professor of agricultural economics, to apply new learning techniques and develop Web-based educational materials for resident education and extension programs in agribusiness management.

Robert P. Brooks, professor of wildlife and wetlands, to explore ways to combine wetlands, streams and riparian habitats into a fully integrated system of watershed inventory, assessment and restoration.

David M. Eissenstat, professor of woody plant physiology, to study apple root dynamics and physiology at the Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre in Summerland, British Columbia.

Constance A. Flanagan, associate professor of agricultural and extension education, to complete a book-length manuscript on the developmental foundations of social trust in civil society at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York.

Daniel D. Fritton, professor of soil physics, to study the effect that management practices have on soil physical properties, plant root growth and crop yield at the United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Great Plains Systems Research in Fort Collins, Colo.

Gary J. Killian, professor of reproductive physiology, to study carbohydrate characteristics of the sperm membrane following exposure to oviduct fluid and acquire technical skills in the flow cytometry and molecular biology at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.

Stephen J. Knabel, associate professor of food science, to conduct research on molecular methods for detecting food-borne pathogens and the phylogeny of hyperthermophiles and also to revamp graduate and undergraduate courses at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.

Melissa Hoy Whetzel, associate extension agent, Greene County, to pursue a master of science degree in agriculture and environmental education at West Virginia University at Parkersburg.

Penn State Altoona

Indrani Basak, professor of mathematics, to continue research on the general field of developing statistical methodologies for censored data and to initiate some collaborating projects with individuals working in the same area at the University of Connecticut in Storrs.

Prasanta Basak, associate professor of mathematics, to conduct collaborative research on record values, ranges and mixtures of distribution at Rider University in Lawrenceville, N.J., and the University of Connecticut in Storrs.

College of Arts and Architecture

Micaela Amateau Amato, professor of art and women's studies, to focus research and creative work on the production of an installation, Byzantine Nights Divine Tales and Other Migrations, with travel to Morocco, Spain and Italy.

Lisa J. Bontrager, associate professor of music, to present concerts and make a compact disc recording with the Bontrager-Stebleton Horn Duo in Florida.

Michael E. Broyles, distinguished professor of music and professor of American history, to write a book, Leo Orndstein and the Modernist Movement in America, which is a study of the early 20th-century pianist and composer and the cultural milieu in which he lived, with work to be done in Tallahassee, Fla.

Marylene Dosse, professor of music, to perform three concerts of the complete cycle of the Beethoven's piano and violin sonatas with violinist Marianne Behrendt at the Salle Gaveau in Paris, and to perform a series of concerts in England, Germany and Holland.

Taylor Aitken Greer, associate professor of music, to write a book which interprets the conflicts between exoticism and nationalism in the late music of Charles Griffes with study and travel to the New York Public Library, the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., and the Gannett Tripp Learning Center at Elmira College in New York.

Donald E. Kunze, associate professor of architecture and integrative arts, to complete a book-length manuscript on the use of boundaries in mystery fiction and the consequent "mysteries" of boundary behavior in general with visits to special collections in New York and the Center for Canadian Architecture in Montreal.

John Paul Lucas, professor of architecture, to produce a series of written, drawn and built essays regarding the documentary and monumental potential of memorials with travel to Egypt and the Yucatan.

Joanne Rutkowski, associate professor of music education, to complete validation of the "Singing Voice Development Measure" and prepare the tool for publication as a standardized measure for the assessment of singing achievement in children.

Penn State Berks-Lehigh Valley

Richard W. Burkard, associate professor of Spanish, to work on a book, The Cult of the Virgin in the Poetry of Gonzalo de Berceo.

The Smeal College
of Business Administration

Annette L. Beatty, associate professor of accounting, to pursue research interests in risk management and banking at the Financial Institutions Center at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Austin J. Jaffe, Philip H. Sieg professor of business administration, to continue research on property rights studies, the importance of property rights in international real estate markets and housing market institutions at the University of New Brunswick in Canada.

Dennis K.J. Lin, professor of management science, to continue research on rotated factorial designs, to initiate studies in the area of data mining and to complete a book on uniform design with a colleague at National Cheng-Chi University in Taiwan with travel to Pohang University of Science and Technology in South Korea, Hong Kong Baptist University, University of Southampton in the United Kingdom, the Bureau of Statistics in Taiwan and Lucent Technologies in Murray Hill, N.J.

Lisa L. Posey, associate professor of business administration, to participate in the analysis and design of innovative risk financing methods and customized products in the area of enterprise risk management and financial insurance at Willis North America Inc. in Nashville, Tenn.

Penn State Capital College

Richard I. Ammon Jr., associate professor of education, to write Rum Springa, a coming-of-age juvenile novel about an Amish boy during Rum Springa, the time when Amish youth get together to socialize.

Michael A. Becker, associate professor of psychology, to study three applied interpersonal attraction issues: The content of popular interpersonal attraction books, the role of third-party introductions in the romantic relationship process and the relationship between the content of personal advertisements and ad effectiveness.

Rupert F. Chisholm, professor of management, to conduct action research on the New Baldwin Corridor Coalition and use research results to help advance development of the coalition as an interorganizational network and to write articles on the network development process.

Cynthia Massie Mara, associate professor of health-care administration and policy, to support research and writing related to a book, Long-Term Care Futures, and to the development of teaching materials for graduate courses with study and travel to the U.S. National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Md.; the United Hospital Fund Library of New York; and the Department for the Aging Library in New York.

Judith L. Stephens, associate professor of speech communication, to prepare for publication a critical volume of plays by New Negro Renaissance poet and playwright Georgia Douglas Johnson, with study and travel to the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.; the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University in Washington, D.C.; and the Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library.

Commonwealth College

Jeanne T. Amlund, assistant professor of educational psychology,
McKeesport campus, to develop activity modules incorporating real-world, Web-based data sets and student-generated data for undergraduate statistics instruction.

Jay R. Breckenridge, associate professor of theatre arts, McKeesport campus, to observe and collect Asian theatre forms, as presented in the multicultural environment of Singapore, for the purpose of adapting the forms and stories for production here and publishing adaptations and observations with travel to Singapore and Malaysia.

David P. Chin, associate professor of English, Wilkes-Barre campus, to revisit modernist and contemporary American poetry, classical Chinese poetry in translation and poetic theory with a view toward shaping a more well-defined personal aesthetic and to begin working on new poems for a third collection of poems.

David A. DiPietro, associate professor of art, Fayette campus, to produce a body of work consisting of paintings, pastels and prints that will comprise a complete exhibition of 30 to 35 pieces concerning one coherent theme of landscapes of southwestern Pennsylvania and the influences that European landscapes and landscape art has had on them with the project being done in southwestern Pennsylvania and Italy.

John Dolis, associate professor of English, Worthington Scranton campus, to complete a draft of a book, The Idea(l) of Rome in American Romance, which explores the meaning and function of Rome in 19th-century American romanticism.

Clarence W. Finley Jr., associate professor of chemistry, New Kensington campus, to investigate the one-electron spectra of metallic nanoclusters.

Caroline K. Hall, associate professor of English and women's studies, Beaver campus, to continue and extend work on 20th-century American poet Sylvia Plath, by exploring resources (letters, journals and other manuscripts) that became available to Plath scholars in late 1998, in the Mortimer Rare Book Room at Smith College, with travel to the Lilly Library at the University of Indiana and Emory University.

G. Robert Himmer Jr., associate professor of history, York campus, to complete writing a book on Joseph Stalin's relations with Vladimir I. Lenin from their first meeting in 1905 to Lenin's death in 1924.

Jerrold V. Hoeg, associate professor of Spanish, Fayette campus, to write a book about the effects of science, technology and environmentalism on Costa Rican literature at the Costa Rican Ometeca Foundation at the University of Costa Rica in San Ramon de Alajuela.

Thomas A. Knapp, associate professor of economics, Wilkes-Barre campus, to undertake an economic analysis of the determinants of differential mobility across subgroups of the population and the implications for economic well-being.

Aldo W. Morales, associate professor of general engineering, DuBois campus, to conduct collaborative research on efficient implementation of rank and sample selection probabilities algorithms, and on image compression using truncated trigonometric transforms with travel to Korea University.

John-Paul Mulilis, associate professor of psychology, Beaver campus, to investigate the use of persuasive communication theory to increase levels of preparedness of individuals subjected to the threat of potential natural disasters, at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

Ronald J. Pollock, assistant professor of chemistry, Shenango campus, to develop two projects: one to improve the coatings of aircraft models for aerodynamic testing in wind tunnels and the other to determine the origin of the left and right-handed nature of carbon nanotubes, at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va.

Prem D. Sattsangi, associate professor of chemistry, Fayette campus, to conduct collaborative research in the field of boron chemistry at West Virginia University in Morgantown.

Grace C. Stanford, associate professor of education, Delaware County campus, to write a book, Urban Education: A Reference Book, which takes a broad overview of urban education including historical background; demographic changes; and the shortage of qualified teachers, curriculum, politics and economics in school governance and school reform.

Jane S. Sutton, associate professor of speech, York campus, to complete a book, Figuring In/Out Rhetoric, which describes the emergence of women as public speakers in the United States from 1828-1997, and analyzes the emergence of women on the platform as a transgression and a transformation of the foundation of rhetorical communication.

Robert A. Walters, professor of engineering, McKeesport campus, to expand and enhance information technology skills and through that a professional development initiative to help mold Penn State
McKeesport into a regional center for information sciences and technology in the Mon Valley.

David M. Wells, associate professor of mathematics, New Kensington campus, to investigate the development of symbolic reasoning in high school and college students with travel and study at various Penn State campuses.

College of Communications

Dorn Hetzel III, associate professor of film and video, to research and generate a new art of ecology that envisions the relationship of human beings to Earth; to draw up a blueprint for producing professional media messages capable of communicating environmental messages of sufficient impact to overcome popular inattention and indifference; and to create a screenplay for a feature-length, new-form narrative at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and at the University College in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

College of Earth
and Mineral Sciences

Terry Engelder, professor of geosciences, to integrate fracture mechanics into various geomechanical models for use in developing the best static and dynamic conceptual models for fractured reservoirs at the research labs of the Total-Fina-Elf Group in Pau, France.

Abraham S. Grader, associate professor of petroleum and natural gas engineering, to conduct research on fluid transport in fractured rocks; to develop a computer-modulated course on three-phase flow in porous media; and to develop methods for detecting large-scale heterogeneities from tracer tests at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Katherine H. Freeman, associate professor of geosciences, to study molecular indicators of microbial processes in marine environments which will include investigations of geochemical cycling by anaerobic ecosystems with a focus on acetate, hydrogen and methane production and update at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts.

Digby D. Macdonald, professor of materials science and engineering and director of the Center for Electrochemical Science and Technology, to conduct collaborative research on the passivity of iron and to complete writing a book on passivity and passivity breakdown in electrochemical systems at the University of California, Berkeley.

Raymond G. Najjar Jr., associate professor of meteorology, to conduct collaborative research and develop a new, more accurate method for measuring the photochemical production of carbon dioxide in seawater at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts.

Mark E. Patzkowsky, associate professor of geosciences, to conduct collaborative research and develop and analyze a new electronic fossil database to investigate the environmental context of the sudden appearance of skeletonized marine animals nearly 550 million years ago, the so-called Cambrian explosion, at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass.

Adam Z. Rose, professor and head of the Department of Energy, Environmental and Mineral Economics, to write a book, The Marketable Permits Approach to Global Climate Change Policy, with travel and study at Resources for the Future in Washington, D.C.

Johannes Verlinde, associate professor of meteorology, to conduct collaborative research on approaches to separate the individual contributions of liquid and ice phase particles to radar measurements at the Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands.

College of Education

John D. Marshall, associate professor of education, to work as a liaison between a charter school and the College of Education and its Department of Curriculum and Instruction to pursue Professional Development School Status and to develop a historical account of the school's creation within the broader state and national charter school movement in the United States at the Sugar Valley Rural Charter School in Loganton.

Kathy L. Ruhl, professor of special education, to develop a technology-based alternative to a traditional instructional model for use in methods-oriented courses.

Robert B. Slaney, professor of counseling psychology and head of the Department of Counselor Education, Counseling Psychology and Rehabilitation Services, to write a paper that summarizes and critiques the research on perfectionism and to write two papers using data on perfectionism; to develop skills in advanced multi-variate analyses and use them in planning future studies with travel and study at Georgia State University in Atlanta, the University of Missouri-Columbia and Michigan State University in East Lansing.

Lourdes Diaz Soto, professor of education, to conduct collaborative research and lecture on the subject of training teachers for social justice at the Center for Education for Social Change in the Kibbutzim College of Education in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Frank C. Worrell, associate professor of education, to train guidance and special education officers in consultation and reading intervention and to collect data on students' school functioning at the Guidance and Counseling and Special Education Units of the Ministry of Education in Trinidad and Tobago.

College of Engineering

S. Ashok, professor of engineering science, to study properties and applications of functional nanocavities in silicon and related semiconductors formed by high-energy ion implantation and plasma processing at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Orleans, France, and the Universite de Droit in Marseilles, France.

William P. Bahnfleth, associate professor of architectural engineering, to study indoor air quality engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Dorgan Associates in Madison.

Ashok D. Belegundu, professor of mechanical engineering, to learn and develop algorithms and software for large-scale engineering optimization, exploiting the use of multi-processor computers, and to develop formal research interactions with faculty at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore.

Fred S. Cannon, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, to gain perspective, growth and renewal relative to using activated carbon and advanced oxidants for water treatment and air pollution control, and to develop a new area of expertise in applying these processes to the foundry industry with travel and study in Redlands, Calif., and Cincinnati.

Ageliki Elefteriadou, associate professor of civil engineering, to study the traffic operational analysis methods developed and used in The Netherlands and other European countries; to identify and/or develop new and improved methods that can be applied to conditions in the United States; and to lecture abroad on the methods and applications for traffic operational analyses in the United States at the Technical University of Delft in The Netherlands.

Steven L. Garrett, professor of acoustics, to broaden understanding of the recent developments in thermoacoustics made at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the experimental and theoretical techniques they have developed to exploit this new approach at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, Eindhoven Technical University in The Netherlands, Ciudad Universitaria in Cordoba, Argentina, and the University of Mississippi in Oxford.

William E. Higgins, professor of electrical engineering, to conduct research in three-dimensional medical imaging and collect data for new proposals; and to broaden and update knowledge in general research area at The University of Iowa in Iowa City, and the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

Dennis R. Hiltunen, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, to conduct collaborative research on development of a mobile laboratory and test protocols for characterization of the spatial variation of soil deposits at Rutgers University in Piscataway, N.J.

Soundar R.T. Kumara, professor of industrial engineering, to conduct collaborative research in the area of intelligent information systems supported by the Department of Defense at the Intelligent Automation Inc. in Rockville, Md.

Kwang Y. Lee, professor of electrical engineering, to conduct research on intelligent control of power system under deregulated environment and to investigate economic and technical issues involved in deregulating electric power industry at Seoul National University in South Korea with travel to the United Kingdom and Japan.

Richard A. Queeney, professor of engineering mechanics, to complete authorship of a graduate level reference textbook, Advanced Mechanical Behavior of Materials, in Williamstown, Mass., with visits to the Williams College Library in Williamstown, and the library at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.

Alok Sinha, professor of mechanical engineering, to study jet engine blade vibration and to develop new techniques to compute the statistics of response of a mistuned bladed disk assembly at Pratt and Whitney in East Hartford, Conn.

Gita Talmage, associate professor of mechanical engineering, to develop a power plant technology course with a strong emphasis on both the hardware and engineering fundamentals.

Mirna Urquidi-Macdonald, professor of engineering science and mechanics, to conduct collaborative research involving the data analysis of bio-systems using smart mathematical techniques and the Neural Network pattern of recognition at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration at the Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif.

Vigor Yang, professor of mechanical engineering, to conduct basis research on active control of gas-turbine engine dynamics at the Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics of National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan.

Savas Yavuzkurt, professor of mechanical engineering, to conduct collaborative research in the emerging and rapidly growing area of Micro Electron Mechanical Systems as it is related to fluid flow at the National Taiwan University.

Penn State Erie

John P. Beaumont, associate professor of engineering, to study the development of new three-dimensional injection molding simulation technology for course development and outreach with travel to software developers in the United States and Canada.

Dawn G. Blasko, associate professor of psychology, to compare the comprehension of nonliteral language such as idioms and metaphors between age-matched control subjects and patients who have right hemisphere brain damage at Harvard Medical School in Belmont, Mass., and the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

John G. Champagne, associate professor of English, to investigate the first nine years of African-American novelist James Baldwin's expatriation to France with travel to the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris.

A. Daniel Frankforter, professor of medieval history, to research and write a book, Civilization and Survival: The Western Story, which is related to civilization and survival in Europe.

Donald M. McKinstry, associate professor of biology, to collect a large and diverse sample of spider webs from the field for laboratory assay to determine if antimicrobial or coagulant substances are present and of medical value with travel from Pennsylvania south to Florida and west to Texas.

Timothy R. Smaby, associate professor of finance, to study non-financial, or strategic performance, variables as indicators of firm value and future stock performance from an external analyst perspective.

Robert W. Speel, associate professor of political science, to pursue research in American and Canadian regional politics with the goal of publishing a book on American regional politics and an edited volume on regional politics in economically developed countries, with travel to the York University library in Toronto.

Margaret A. Thoms, associate professor of management, to develop a seminar and articles for business professionals and lay journals on how to find, interpret and use academic research, with travel to Columbus, Ohio.

Barry R. Weller, associate professor of economics, to compare and evaluate alternative methodological approaches to generating multi-sectoral employment forecasts for small regional economics.

Penn State Great Valley

Kathryn W. Jablokow, associate professor of mechanical engineering, to investigate the engineering problem-solving process by classifying three of its major components based on cognitive style, at Indiana State University in Terre Haute, the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom and the Occupational Research Centre in Hertfordshire, the United Kingdom.

College of Health
and Human Development

Kathleen L. Barry, professor of human development, to complete a qualitative study of the impact of economic change on women and families in Northern Ireland through three generations, at the Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University in Belfast.

Peter A. Farrell, professor of physiology, to conduct studies on differential gene expression, at the University of California, Berkeley.

Frank B. Guadagnolo, associate professor of leisure studies and associate director of recreation and park management, to collaboratively develop relational database systems, focus group interviews and survey design and research for respective curricula in leisure studies, at the University of Las Vegas in Nevada.

Mark L. Latash, professor of kinesiology, to study the role of the corticospinal tract and of the cerebellum in the generation of motor synergies at the Institute of Neurology of the Medical Research Council in London and the University of Riberao Preto in Sau Paulo, Brazil.

K. Warner Schaie, Evan Pugh professor of human development and psychology, to complete a monograph on the Seattle Longitudinal Study and to develop plans for research funding for continuation of a study in clinical cross-national comparisons at Seattle; Geneva; Heidelberg, Germany; and Stockholm, Sweden.

College of the Liberal Arts

Philip H. Baldi, professor of linguistics and classics, to continue work on The New Historical Syntax of Latin, a multi-authored volume which breaks new theoretical and methodological ground in the study of the historical syntax of the Indo-European languages, Latin in particular, at Stanford University in California.

Lee Ann Banaszak, associate professor of political science and women's studies, to examine how women's movements in the United States and Germany have institutionalized and adopted insider tactics over time.

Eric W. Bond, professor of economics, to conduct a theoretical analysis of the dynamics of trade agreements, which will focus on analyzing the process by which countries become members of trade agreements and explaining the time pattern of tariff reductions under a trade agreement, with travel to the City University of Hong Kong and the World Trade Organization in Geneva.

Patrick G. Cheney, professor of English and comparative literature, to conduct research on the Oxford Edition of the collected works of Edmund Spenser, now in the first year of a 10-year contract with Oxford University Press in the United Kingdom.

N. Edward Coulson, associate professor of economics, to complete a monograph, slated to be one of a series sponsored by the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, on hedonic evaluation methods in residential housing markets.

Veronique M. Foti, associate professor of philosophy, to complete the research for and write a draft version of a new book, Tragic Blindness, which will interlink, and require extensive research in, several areas of scholarship such as classics, ancient Greek philosophy, literary theory and 19th- and 20th-century European philosophy.

Kathryn M. Grossman, professor of French, to finish a book on Victor Hugo's later fiction and to participate in a number of international symposia organized to honor the bicentenary of Hugo's birth in 1802, with travel to Paris.

Michael P. Johnson, associate professor of sociology, women's studies and African and African-American studies, to complete a draft of a book on domestic violence, pulling together theoretical and empirical work of the last 10 years and presenting a review of the domestic violence literature within that framework, at the University of Texas, Austin.

Joan B. Landes, professor of women's studies and history, to investigate the designs for artificial life undertaken by men of letters, science, medicine and technology in 18th-century France, with travel to archives, museums and libraries in New York, Washington and France.

Barrett A. Lee, professor and head of the Department of Sociology, to pursue two research projects, one concerned with the long-term fate of racially integrated neighborhoods and the other with the distribution of ethnic groups across larger spatial units; and to use these projects for the development of a new course tentatively titled, "Race, Ethnicity and Residence."

Robert C. Marshall, professor and head of the Department of Economics, to study the understanding of bidder collusion at both auctions and procurements at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C.

Sally A. McMurry, professor of American history, to investigate how specific Pennsylvania rural communities shaped and responded to the political and economic developments of the American Civil War during 1840-70, with travel to archives in Harrisburg and Washington, D.C., and visits to local historical collections.

Mark H. Munn, associate professor of history and classics and ancient Mediterranean studies, to write a book, Candaules' Wife: The Power and the Desire of Power in Classical Athens, with travel to the library of the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C.

Eric Plutzer, associate professor of political science and sociology, to research a project investigating the politics of public schools.

Mark J. Roberts, professor of economics, to pursue research on the patterns of firm entry, exit, growth and investment and their role in the evolution of the manufacturing industries in developing countries.

John E. Russon, associate professor of philosophy, to conduct research and writing for the completion of a book, Bearing Witness to Epiphany, and to begin a second book, Invitations, in Toronto, with travel to Boston and New York.

Robin G. Schulze, assistant professor of English, to complete research and continue writing a book which is a broad, culturally conceptualized, archival study of four major American modernist poets: Marianne Moore, Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams, with travel to the Rosenbach Museum and Library in Philadelphia, the Beinecke Library at Yale University, the Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas, Austin, and the Poetry Collection of the State University of Buffalo in New York.

Joseph V. Terza, associate professor of economics, to develop and apply an econometric technique that is designed to overcome the technical difficulties that have previously precluded the unbiased estimation of the public cost-containment effects of Medicare Health Maintenance Organizations, with travel to Boston University in Massachusetts.

Evan P. Watkins, professor of English and women's studies, to complete a book under contract with Stanford University on academic training, vocational education and class formation in the United States.

Linda Woodbridge, professor of English and women's studies, to research and begin to write a book-length study, Getting What One Deserves: The Economics of Revenge Tragedy, with travel to the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., and the Huntington Library in San Marino, Calif.

College of Medicine

Julien F. Biebuyck, professor and senior associate dean, to explore new directions and models in the area of faculty development and leadership for the College of Medicine and The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center; and in enhancing the leadership role for Penn State in the ethics of human research and furthering Penn State's plan for mission-based management and mission-based budgeting.

Eberly College of Science

John V. Badding, associate professor of chemistry, to conduct research on chalcogenide optical materials and to extend current synthesis and pressure tuning efforts to optoelectronic materials, at the Optoelectronics Research Center at Southampton University in the United Kingdom.

James J. Beatty, associate professor of physics and astronomy and astrophysics, to conduct theoretical and analytical work related to studies of the nature and interactions of the highest energy cosmic rays, at the Bartol Research Foundation at the University of Delaware in Newark.

Leonid V. Berlyand, associate professor of mathematics, to expand several research projects in the overlapping areas of homogenization theory, percolation theory, and physics and mechanics of composite materials, at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Princeton University, the University of Paris 6 and the National Academy of Sciences in Kharkov, Ukraine.

Dmitri Y. Burago, professor of mathematics, to study asymptotic geometry of tori, ergodic properties of geodesic flows for Riemannian and Finsler metrics, geometry of surfaces in normed spaces and kick stability, at Tel Aviv University in Israel, the University of Maryland in College Park and the University of Washington in Seattle.

Frank R. Deutsch, professor of mathematics, to collaborate on a project to study ways of accelerating the important Dykstra's cyclic projections algorithm, at Texas A&M University in College Station.

Nina V. Fedoroff, professor of biology, Verne M. Willaman professor of life sciences and director of the Biotechnology Institute, to organize an international consortium of plant scientists to assist in accelerating the transfer of advanced research to less-developed countries, as well as in building research infrastructure at Rockefeller University in Washington, D.C.

Martin P. Fürer, associate professor of computer science and engineering, to conduct research on discrete algorithms and their computational complexity, at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

Peter C. Jurs, professor of chemistry, to observe and participate in chemical education in a small college chemistry department at an institution very different from Penn State, in order to seek innovations and improvements that might be transferable, at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colo.

Mark Maroncelli, professor of chemistry, to perform theoretical and computer modeling studies of the electronic spectra of solutes in supercritical solvents, at The University of Texas at Austin.

Richard W. Robinett, professor of physics, to develop innovative, Web-based instructional materials in the area of quantum mechanics at the advanced undergraduate level and to continue ongoing research on elementary particle theory and mathematical physics, at the University of Maryland in College Park.

Robert T. Simpson, professor and holder of the Verne M. Willaman chair in biochemistry and molecular biology, to use high resolution electron microscopy to determine structures of specific repressed genes at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.

Christopher F. Uhl, professor of biology, to write a book directed to teachers and citizens alike that will reveal how awe, wonder and reverence for life can be placed at the center of environmental science reading, at Antioch New England Graduate School in Keene, N.H., and Prescott College in Arizona.

Leonid N. Vaserstein, professor of mathematics, to conduct research in algebra and number theory and finish a textbook on linear programming, at the Weitzmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.

Nicholas Winograd, Evan Pugh professor of chemistry, to develop and strengthen international collaborations to enhance ongoing molecule-specific bioimaging experiments, at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology in the United Kingdom and the University of Essen in Germany.

Ping Xu, associate professor of mathematics, to continue work on Poisson geometry and quantization, in particular on the project concerning quantization of Lie bialgebroids and local structures of Lie bialgebroids, at the University of California, Berkeley, and Peking University in Beijing.

University Libraries

Debora L. Cheney, associate librarian and head of the Social Sciences Library, to develop, edit, update and revise a new edition of The Complete Guide to Citing Government Information.

Amy L. Paster, associate librarian and head of the Life Sciences Library, to collaborate and coordinate with other land-grant libraries on the identification of materials in the Life Sciences Library working collection that are at risk of being lost due to age.

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